Blu-Ray Works on Macs

[Cave Man]

A coworker of mine just discovered a really interesting fact: if you put a Blu-Ray disc into a Mac, you can watch it if you use VLC (www.videolan.org). I haven't personally tried it myself, but if this is true, that would be awesome!

Well, yes, but you left out a couple of steps. You first have to decrypt it with Make MKV, then you can watch the disc with VLC. Soon you'll be able to do it with Plex, too.

 

[Ca$hflow]

Cool

 

[locust76]

Blu-ray doesn't have DHCP, that is an encryption protocol used for displays with HDMI and DVI.

Neither Blu-Ray nor displays have DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), unless they have network ports...

HDCP, however, is present on many displays, and decrypts video data from the video source.

 

[guzhogi]

Tap the breaks there sport, I'm not trying to jack with you, but on the contrary defend you. This site is called MacRumors for a reason. People are constantly posting things that are second hand information. If you would like to reread the thread many posters have jumped you for posting "incorrect" information. My point is that they should remember that this is a rumor site and relax instead of slamming you for sharing your thoughts on something. While it's nice to have information backed up with verifiable facts, part of what makes this place so interesting is that it's not required.

No need to apologize, unless you feel you should.

Well, I do feel like I need to apologize. Sorry. It's just hard to tell intention on these forums.

Now, can we all agree with this and move on? The fact that this is second-hand info to the OP, and neither he nor his colleague seem to be techno-gurus (no offense or anything) means to me this story has a hole or two in it...

Actually, I & my colleague are kinda geeky when it comes to technology. I was just as surprised as you were. I'm well aware of the technical differences. As this is second hand info, I'm not aware of all the tiny details, and I can not confirm it WAS a BluRay disc. Since I don't have anything on BluRay (commercially available or homemade), I can't test it.

 

[Cave Man]

I can not confirm it WAS a BluRay disc. Since I don't have anything on BluRay (commercially available or homemade), I can't test it.

It doesn't really matter because you can play Blu-ray discs under OS X, commercial (i.e., encrypted) discs or otherwise.

 

[mscriv]

Well, I do feel like I need to apologize. Sorry. It's just hard to tell intention on these forums.

Thanks and don't give it a second thought. As MC Hammer would say "Heeeeeey, It's All Good!"

 

[old-wiz]

Well, I do feel like I need to apologize. Sorry. It's just hard to tell intention on these forums.

It's hard to tell intention on any forum! And in e-mail. Don't worry about it.

 

[cube]

The current workarounds for Blu-Ray playback do not support menus and BD-Live.

 

[cmaier]

The current workarounds for Blu-Ray playback do not support menus and BD-Live.

Thank goodness. menus and bd-live suck.

 

[SimonMW]

and certainly NOT on a set-top Blu-ray player.

Actually you can. You certainly can with a PS3.

 

[hvfsl]

blu ray drive + makemkv + server mode + connect to vlc = play

Just discovered makemkv this morning, amazing program! Although I prefer mplayerx over VLC because it is optimised for 64bit and dualcore.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mplayerx_sony.html

 

[supercooled]

uh really? Kilamite, you don't see the point?

That guy sounds like a curmudgeon or is just yanking people's legs for kicks. Either way, I think there is some signals crossed between the thread starter and the person who claims its Bluray. It's likely someone saw VC1 which VLC does support and made the assumption that it's BluRay.